And you are allowed to be. It is a bit strange in an XML-RPC dialog to
drop out to http occasionally ...

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Actually, I'd expect large files over XML-RPC to be handled by sending
a URL, and have the client GET the file separately. But then, I have
weird ideas sometimes.

This has absolutely nothing on them actually implementing a lot of their
XML-RPC using HTTP GET, when the protocol clearly states it must be an
HTTP POST ...
(I imagine this is a performance enhancement in that you needn't
xml-parse the payload ...)

Unless you can make the server a simple front-end to a pile-o-files on
disk, I don't see any benefit. There's no issue for the client, only
the server, since they want to limit the number of machines they stick
behind the load-balancer.
Ok, I think we've agreed this isn't an Expat issue, but a bug in
RedHat code that's unrelated to using XML in Zope. The Expat-based
minidom-builder in recent versions of Python is pretty well tested in
practice.
-Fred
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"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless." --B.F. Skinner
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